For more than 8 years our blog has identified that IEEE, Springer Verlag, ACM, AIP (American Institute of Physics), WorldScientific (Singapore), Taylor and Francis, Elsevierconferences are fake, bogus, scam, sham, mock and predatory. Now we have additional Proofs:

Let''s start with the IEEE SCIGen Fake Papers of 2009. What's happened in 2009:In 2009, we had received the following email from a girl that was working in IARIA's secretariat.

IEEE Computer Society Press sent it in January 17 (2009) to all the IEEE Sponsored, Co-Sponsored Conferences as well as to conferencesthat publish their Proceedings with IEEE CS Press. It is impressive how many IEEE conferences are based on a review on the Abstract!.

The IEEE Computer Society (CS) has evidence that multiple (IEEE) conferences are receiving machine-generated papers. In two cases, conferences have actually accepted an obviously fraudulent submission. This is a serious issue that threatens the credibility of your conference, the quality of the digital library, and the reputation of both the IEEE and CS. It requires your immediate attention. Please take this opportunity to ensure that your peer review processes are being followed, and adapt to any new requirements that may be communicated by the IEEE or the Computer Society. No conference published by CPS should rely on an abstract review. It is very important that you review carefully the full text of all papers submitted to your conference. If you have already accepted papers, your program committee should review the full text again. While CPS staff will be conducting random spot-checks of conference papers in the publishing queue, we are relying on you to authenticate the content of your proceedings. Any papers that were not actually presented at your conference need to be brought to our attention, and should receive close review. In known cases, the machine-generated origin is obvious from a reading of the first few paragraphs of the paper; the abstracts are human-generated and do not indicate the quality of the paper itself. In the past, papers have been submitted by “Herbert Schlangemann,” but be mindful that the perpetrator of this fraud will change the approach over time. In the event you discover any evidence of questionable content or behavior, please communicate that to us immediately along with an action plan for addressing the problem. Thank you for your help in maintaining the quality of our products.

END OF 2009 IEEE EMAIL

2/04/2010

See what we found on the web: FAKE JOURNALS by Elsevier -- FAKE CONFERENCES by IEEE!

Fake Journal Publishing Scam (this time not from IEEE but fromELSEVIER)

Fake Journal Publishing Scam Here is an interesting scam that I hadn'tseen before. Someone is sending out mail purportedly from the academicpublisher Elsevier soliciting professors to submit papers to vaguelydescribed journals. The scam is apparently that your paper gets"accepted" and then you are asked to pay "processing fees", which goto the scammers without any article ever appearing anywhere.Then again, anyone who could be fooled by the ridiculous message belowprobably deserves what they get.

Dear Colleague,On behalf of all the Editors-in-chief of Elsevier Journals, we wishtoCommunicate to you that we are currently accepting manuscripts inall Fieldsof human Endeavour.All articles published will be peer-reviewed. The following types ofpapersare considered for publication:- Original articles in basic and applied research.- Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays.Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting recentdevelopments intheir fields. Papers submitted will be sorted out andpublished in any ofour numerous journals that best Fits. This is aspecial publicationprocedure which published works will be discussedat seminars (organized byElsevier) at strategic Cities all over theworld. Please maximize thisopportunity to showcase your research workto the world.

journals.Parallel submissions will not be accepted.Our goal is to inform authors about their paper(s) within one weekofreceipt. All submitted papers, if relevant to the theme andobjectives ofthe journal, will go through an external peer-reviewprocess.

PS: Pls. show interest by mailing *elsevierissues@live.com* ifyourManuscript is not ready but will be ready soon.I love the claim that "Papers submitted will be sorted out andpublished in any ofour numerous journals that best Fits."

While we went through the paper (not completely), we found that texts at different location of the paper were copied word by word from the following listed articles (by the way, you can check yourself, do the search on Google):

We stop reviewing this article at page number 2, column 1, as the amount of copied texts is ENORMOUS!!!! A REAL SHAME!!!

Due to limited resources we won't be able to go through the entire paper which is 5 pages long!! So definitely, there may be other people works that these people have plagiarized!! We will be grateful if someone can check this and report to us so that we can update this post for all our readers.

We further noticed that they published a similar paper, probably with a 80%-90% similarities in the content (trying to hit 2 birds with 1 stone):

Paper Title: An Economic Allocation of Resources for Multiple Grid ApplicationsJournal Reference: Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2009 Vol I WCECS 2009, October 20-22, 2009, San Francisco, USAAuthors: G. Murugesan and Dr C. ChellappanLink: http://www.iaeng.org/publication/WCECS2009/WCECS2009_pp213-217.pdf

These 2 authors can be contacted at: murugesh02@gmail.com and rcc@annauniv.edu

NETDRIVER for Junk IEEE Conferences

Dear Colleagues

Next time that somebody will claim that he has many publications in IEEE,
next time that somebody will send you an advertizement for an IEEE conference or special journal issue,
next time that you will tell you something for IEEE,
REMEMBER these stories:

Many Universities consider that many IEEE Conferences are garbage. Some of them consider that even in the IEEE Journals the review is quite ridiculous and has only to do with your public relations in IEEE and its conferences or if you have put as co-author
some important editor of IEEE